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provides examples of Formulas, Functions and Visual Basic proceduresįor illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, includingīut not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness forĪ particular purpose. This procedure loops through the cells in the selected range, replaces the text in the cells by removing the spaces from the product codes matched with the given RegEx pattern. Return to worksheet, and select the range with sample text.

#MICROSOFT WORD FIND AND REPLACE USING VBA CODE#

Make sure VBScript Regular Expressions library is added to the project just like you did in Word, and copy and paste the following code into this new module. This article has been inspired by Learn Excel 2010 - "Find & Replace Color of A Certain Word": Podcast #1714 published by Bill Jelen on May 21, 2013! So we wanted to use similar sample text as he used in the video. Make sure VBScript Regular Expressions library is added to the project, and copy and paste the following code into this new module.

Change the color of the found range with the color in the previous step.

Find the color of the first word in the found range.

Search each matched text by using Word Find method.

So we will combine RegEx and Word VBA methods in the following procedure. We need to find "fox" followed by numeric characters, and change the match by using the color of the "fox" section in the matched text.Īlthough RegEx is very good matching by the given pattern, it cannot replace the color of text in Word document. Let's go back to the sample text we used at the beginning of this article. This procedure simply joins the two terms without spaces. Terms in this pattern are enclosed with parentheses, and corresponding terms are used in the Replace method as $1 and $2 in order. Please note that pattern is slightly different than the first code. Replaced text printed in the Immediate window. This procedure replaces the sample text content by removing the spaces from the product codes matched with the given pattern, and prints the result text in the Immediate window.

Visit Regular Expression Language - Quick Reference for more information about character escapes, character classes, and anchors.Ĭopy and paste following code to see RegEx in action to remove the spaces from product codes. \d+ character class in the pattern defines one or more numeric characters, and pattern is basically "fox" prefix followed by a space followed by numbers. Matched product codes printed in the Immediate window.

This procedure takes the sample text, finds the product codes by the given pattern - which is starting with "fox", single space and a number, and prints the matched codes in the Immediate window (hit Ctrl + G in VBE if it is not visible already).

StrSample = "First product code is fox 12, second one is fox 22, and third product is fox 45." Insert a new module, and copy and paste the following code into this module. To use this library in VBA, switch to VBE, select Project and References in the VBE menu, then scroll down the list to find the item "Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5", and tick it to include in the application. Therefore, VBA samples below don't work in Mac.

#MICROSOFT WORD FIND AND REPLACE USING VBA MAC#

Since Internet Explorer is not a Mac application, this library doesn't exist in Mac.

#MICROSOFT WORD FIND AND REPLACE USING VBA WINDOWS#

This library is part of Internet Explorer 5.5 and later, so it is available on all computers running Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or 10. However Microsoft VBScript library contains powerful regular expression capabilities. VBA doesn't ship with any regular expression support. That's where we can call RegEx into the game! However, Word's native search module doesn't let us make a search how Lissa asked. We can also make more complicated searches by using wildcards. Click OK to close Find Font dialog window.Ĭlick Find Next, and you'll see the first occurance of the text being searched in certain color will be selected. Select Font option in the settings, then you can set up the text color that you would like to find in the document. Find and Replace DialogĮnter the text to find, then click More button to see advanced options, and click on Format button. This is a great feature to quickly find the formatted text, and even replace the entire text format in the document. We can find and replace by format in Microsoft Word. I want to change the number to the same color of the word fox. Is there a way to change a number (always a random number) after the word fox? Example: fox 23, bear 1, fox 398, frog 12, fox 15.